What is it that we love so much about Christmas movies? Is it the tradition? The sentiment? The décor? Or, some inexplicable combination of all three, that draws us in, sits us down and leaves us glued to our seats...year after year?

Not all of the films included here are 'Christmas movies' per se, but each of them represents Christmas in a memorable, magical, and somehow repeatedly watchable way. Most of us have seen them many times, yet we still watch - over, and over, and over. Is it the comfort in the familiar that appeals to us? Do they simply make us laugh? Remind us of the true meaning of the season? Or do they represent a longing for a time, a place (or a family!), that is somehow different from our own? Do we see ourselves in these films, or merely wish that we did??